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Friday, February 1, 2013

Educating Authorities

Aaron
Tobey might have just come up with a workable solution for dealing
with authorities. One of the main problems when dealing with
authorities is that some of them are new to the job and haven't been
sufficiently trained, while others have the compassion and demeanor
of a third world tyrant. When it comes to doing their job, they can
use their mental prowess, or lack there of, to shield them from
recourse. Too often the only negative consequences they face is a
public demonstration of their failed education, but in this political
climate, the lack of an education can also be seen as a positive by a
certain tricorn hat wearing segment of the population.

Aaron
Tobey, suspecting that he would be put in a compromising position
with little opportunity for direct input, wrote an abbreviated
version of the Fourth Amendment on his chest. According
to Wired:

A Virginia man who
wrote an abbreviated version of the Fourth Amendment on his body and
stripped to his shorts at an airport security screening area won a
trial Friday in his lawsuit seeking $250,000 in damages for being
detained on a disorderly conduct charge.

Perhaps
it's time for all of us to turn our bodies into canvasses for our own
protection. It isn't unheard of for patients facing an operation to
leave a note on their healthy body parts to leave a note to the
doctor telling them to operate elsewhere. It seems like the same
thing can be applied to law enforcement. Simply write the laws on
your body, and the offending officers might not have as much of an
excuse for overstepping their bounds.